Sermon – God & Life: Limitations in Life

Read the text – Psalm 139John 9:1-34

God shapes life. Disability is a normal and good part of God’s creation and whilst that may mean there are limitations placed upon a person (including their reliance on others), Christians should embrace the God’s gift of each person.

In this talk, Ken Noakes opens a discussion about how Christians can think about disability in our fallen world now and suggests a different approach to thinking about disability in our coming perfect world. This will create discussion – agree or disagree – let’s together recognize that we can take steps now to care well for those who live with disabilities as we all wait for heaven.

Sermon – Everywhere, Everything, All the Time: All Places (John 4:1-26)

Read the text – John 4:1-26

In the sermon series, ‘Everywhere, Everything, All the time’, Lower Mountains Anglican Church explores what it means to worship God. In this sermon, Paul Hallam explains how Jesus revolutionised the worship of God, and that worship cannot be constrained to a single location or moment in time.

Sermon Outline: Everywhere, Everything, All the Time – All Places

Sermon – Listening and Speaking to God: Prayer – Believe (John 17:20-26)

Read the text – John 17:20-26

Who am I? We can have many answers to this, most of which we make ourselves or garner from those around us. In this sermon on ‘Speaking to God’, David Swan argues that the answer is who we are in Christ, and is shown in Jesus’ prayer in John 17. Listen to how we’re supposed to relate to God, each other and ourselves in Belief in the One that was sent.

Sermon – Listening and Speaking to God: Prayer – Mission (John 17:6-19)

Read the text – John 17:6-19

In this sermon of the sermon series ‘Speaking to God’, Dave Swan speaks on our mission to show the world The Good News. He also looks into the delicate question on who is capable of spreading the Good News, and those who feel they do not know enough. Find out what Jesus prayed in John 17 discussing these points.

Sermon – Wisdom Through Suffering (Job 32-37) – Listen to MY Words

Read the text – Job 32:1-10 & Job 33:1-33

We meet Job’s younger friend Elihu. He has been patiently listening to all that has so far been said and finally he breaks his silence and implores Job to listen (33:1-2). He wants Job to trust his words for he is – sincere (33:3), compassionate (33:6-7) and he speaks with the spirit of God (33:4-5).

His argument: Job is not suffering because he has sinned, but he cautions Job not to sin in his suffering.

Gary Haddon helps the listener consider how we react when suffering – do we look up and down? The ‘why’ of suffering is not the question, but who we are trusting for salvation.